Further Reading – 31 May 2014
+ VIEW: Currently on view outside of New York City in a defunct sugar refinery is the towering form of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, subtitled or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World...
Vincent van Gogh – Bloody Mary
Vincent van Gogh, Still-Life with Mackerels, Lemons and Tomatoes (1886)oil on canvas, 39 x 57 cm, Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur Vincent van Gogh‘s Still-Life with Mackerels, Lemons and Tomatoes (1886) was painted the year the artist moved from Antwerp, where he had very little to eat and no money, to Paris where he lived with...
Lecture: Still Life Talk at Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery
I have been invited to speak about the history of the still life at Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery on Saturday 12 April at 2pm. The talk is special event for the exhibition The Last Supper by Ken + Julia Yonetani which features a 9-metre banquet table cast from salt. I will be speaking about the...
Further Reading – 21 November 2013
+ VISIT: The Museum of Sydney presents Eat your History: A Shared Table until Sunday 9 March 2014. The exhibition “invites you to take a fascinating stroll through eight historic homes that capture the different ages of Sydney’s food culture from 1788 to the 1950s. From the farmhouse-kitchen comforts of Elizabeth Farm to the excesses...
Henri Matisse – Stuffed Eggplant
Henri Matisse, Still Life with Aubergines (1911), oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm, MOMA The 1911 painting Still Life with Aubergines by Henri Matisse exemplifies the characteristics of the Fauvist movement with the wild brushstrokes and incongruent colours. The painting was completed during a period of flux in Matisse’s oeuvre, During this time in his...
Further Reading – 2 November 2013
Shelley Miller, Velocity (2013) (left: day 1, right: day 29), sugar, edible cake decorating inks, 120 x 102.5 cm + VIEW: Today is the last day to view Shelley Miller‘s sugar mural Velocity on the facade of the 2 Danks building. Velocity was part of Sugar, Sugar at Brenda May Gallery and has been slowly...
Sugar, Sugar install photographs
Installation view, Sugar, Sugar, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1 to 19 October 2013. Artworks (left to right): Elizabeth Willing, Goosebump (2010, reinstalled 2013); Judith Klausner, Oreo Cameos (2010-2011); Janet Tavener, Victorian Banquet (2013); Stephanie Jones, The Traceries (2013). Installation view, Sugar, Sugar, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1 to 19 October 2013. Artworks (left to right): Elizabeth Willing, Goosebump (2010, reinstalled 2013); Judith Klausner, Oreo...
Elizabeth Willing – Pfeffernüsse
A focal point in the exhibition Sugar, Sugar at Brenda May Gallery is the installation Goosebump, the 7-metre wall covered with over 300 pfeffernüsse biscuits. It took the Brisbane-based artist Elizabeth Willing over a day and a half to create the entire installation and visitors were invited to bite the cookies from the wall starting on...
Sugar, Sugar (2013)
Using the beguiling substance of sugar as their medium, the ten artists of Sugar, Sugar at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, engage notions of permanence given the transient nature of the material. With Shelley Miller’s Velocity exposed to all the elements, and slowly disintegrating, on the 2 Danks Street façade and Elizabeth Willing’s Goosebump being...
Elizabeth Willing – Dessert II
Elizabeth Willing, Dessert II, performed on 3 October 2013, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, as part of the curated exhibition Sugar, Sugar, 1 to 19 October 2013. As part of Sugar, Sugar, Elizabeth Willing held an experimental meal that explored issues of excess through an extravagant consumption of sugar. On Thursday 3 October, Willing presented the...
Mylyn Nguyen – Sweet Tea
Only one more week until we install Sugar, Sugar at Brenda May Gallery! The work has started to arrive at the Gallery and I am incredibly proud of this exhibition, all of the artists are outstanding. The artwork below is one of the pieces included in the show and I was a bit more literal...
Janet Tavener – Asparagus Pie
The Sugar, Sugar exhibition will be installed at Brenda May Gallery in about three weeks and in the lead-up to the show, I will be sharing a selection of the work that will be on view. You can see Mylyn Nguyen’s carved sugar cube in the current issue of Vogue Living. Janet Tavener, Asparagus Pie...